First day
So I was offered a job at Computershare last week:) I didn't really expect to get it, because the phone interview caught me completely off balance, but I must've done pretty well in the actual interview/team activities/aptitude tests:)
My first impressions are "this place rocks":D It's a massive organisation - they have 1200 employees at the site I'm working at alone and they look after some crazy amount of money along the lines of 1.7 trillion US dollars! The whole operation is so streamlined:O They've got this high speed document scanner that can process 150,000 letters per day:O The sight of a process working so smoothly appeals to the geeky side of me:P
Apart from the intrinsic coolness of what they do, they also have all these employee perks:)
- They have a company gym, that only costs $20 a month compared to like $80 at most places.
- You can salary package pretty much everything including your lunch rofl.
- I get a computer and this awesome phone (can't wait to call up like 10 people at once and put them all on hold:P)
And yeah, it's really cool:) All the people seem really nice - lots of people my age, which is always good.
Today they just took us through what the organisation does (looks after share registries mainly and some unrelated stuff like running the 1800 kellog hotline for people who didn't get their pedometer in their special k packet:|) and the different departments with their crazy acronyms. Apparently I work in TSG and it's part of COS, which is part of CPU, which is listed on the ASX and blah blah:P Pretty boring stuff, but when you're getting paid $20 an hour to half listen, it doesn't seem too bad:P
It sounds like I'll be getting quite a few hours too:) I have to do 2.5 weeks of full time training (I won't actually do it full time though) before they let me start, so that's like 50 hours at least:) And then in November, when I've finished uni, I'll be able to work probably 30 hours per week because that's their peak period apparently:) My money problems could just be solved:)
My first impressions are "this place rocks":D It's a massive organisation - they have 1200 employees at the site I'm working at alone and they look after some crazy amount of money along the lines of 1.7 trillion US dollars! The whole operation is so streamlined:O They've got this high speed document scanner that can process 150,000 letters per day:O The sight of a process working so smoothly appeals to the geeky side of me:P
Apart from the intrinsic coolness of what they do, they also have all these employee perks:)
- They have a company gym, that only costs $20 a month compared to like $80 at most places.
- You can salary package pretty much everything including your lunch rofl.
- I get a computer and this awesome phone (can't wait to call up like 10 people at once and put them all on hold:P)
And yeah, it's really cool:) All the people seem really nice - lots of people my age, which is always good.
Today they just took us through what the organisation does (looks after share registries mainly and some unrelated stuff like running the 1800 kellog hotline for people who didn't get their pedometer in their special k packet:|) and the different departments with their crazy acronyms. Apparently I work in TSG and it's part of COS, which is part of CPU, which is listed on the ASX and blah blah:P Pretty boring stuff, but when you're getting paid $20 an hour to half listen, it doesn't seem too bad:P
It sounds like I'll be getting quite a few hours too:) I have to do 2.5 weeks of full time training (I won't actually do it full time though) before they let me start, so that's like 50 hours at least:) And then in November, when I've finished uni, I'll be able to work probably 30 hours per week because that's their peak period apparently:) My money problems could just be solved:)